The intention with hal was to keep things as simple as possible. RDF (and its related media types) don't do a very good job of this, in my opinion. I think the

The intention with hal was to keep things as simple as possible. RDF (and its related media types) don't do a very good job of this, in my opinion. I think the real-world usage is a good indicator of whether RDF is appropriate for most people's use cases. There's probably some node.js analogy to be made here, too :)